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neighbours, appropriately called Weingarten (5,188 inhabitants). Friedrichshafen 

 (2,908 inhabitants) is the Wurttemberg port on the Lake of Constanz. It is not a 

 laro-e place, but exports great quantities of corn and other produce to Switzerland. 

 The first steamer on the Bodensee left this port in 1824. 



Bavakia, too, has a port on the Lake of Constanz ; not an artificial one, like 

 that of Friedrichshafen, but one well protected by nature, and probably identical 

 with the receptaculmn of Tiberius. Lindau (5,124 inhabitants) is undoubtedly a 

 very ancient city. Built upon two islands joined to the mainland by a wooden 

 bridge and a railway embankment 1,970 feet in length, this Swabian Venice 

 not only exports large quantities of corn, but also manufactures silk. The town 

 affords a magnificent panorama of the Alps, and is much frequented by strangers. 

 The railway which connects Lindau with Augsburg has had to be accommodated 

 to the political boundaries of Bavaria, for the configuration of the ground would 

 certainly have admitted of the construction of a more direct line. It crosses the 

 watershed between the Danube and the Bhine at an elevation of 2,598 feet. It 

 passes Konpten (12,377 inhabitants), a busy manufacturing town in the upper 

 valley of the Hier, with saw and paper mills and woollen factories. This town — 

 the ancient Camponudum — is the most important in the mountainous portion of 

 Bavaria. Memmingen (7,762 inhabitants), a few miles to the east of the Hier, in 

 the midst of hop gardens, formerly surpassed it in wealth and population. Kauf- 

 bcuren (5,553 inhabitants), on the Wertach, the principal affluent of the Lech, is 

 an old imperial free city. 



The towns along the Danube present remarkable contrasts. Those in the west 

 are for the most part built on the left bank, whilst those below Batisbon occupy 

 the right. The nature of the soil amply accounts for this feature. On the 

 Upper Danube the right bank is swampy, and the country is intersected by the 

 ever-shifting torrential rivers flowing down from the Alps. Peasants, monks, 

 lords, and soldiers, they all preferred to establish themselves on the more solid 

 ground offered by the lower terraces of the Jura. At Batisbon, on the other 

 hand, the Bavarian Forest approaches close to the river, leaving no room for the 

 construction of towns, and the inhabitants preferred to settle in the more fertile 

 plain extending from the river to the Alps. 



DUUngen (5,029 inhabitants) is the first Bavarian town which we reach below 

 Neu-L^lm and Giinzburg (3,808 inhabitants). It was the seat of a university 

 until 1804, and is frequently referred to in military history. Hoclistddt and 

 Blindheim (Blenheim) are villages in the neighbourhood, rendered famous on 

 account of the victory achieved by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince 

 Eugene in 1704. This portion of the Danubian valley has suflered a great deal 

 in time of war, for an army desirous of avoiding Ulm can cross the Danube here, 

 and, by occupying both banks, command the roads leading into the valley of the 

 iS^eckar, to the plains of Franconia, or to Augsburg and Munich. Donauworth 

 (3,758 inhabitants), at the confluence of the Danube and Wernitz, is another 

 important strategical position. The old abbey of Kaishcim, near it, has been 

 converted into a penitentiary. In the valley of the Wernitz, which rises in 



